John Summerfield spake the following on 3/14/2007 3:24 PM: > Mark Hull-Richter wrote: >> Slightly OT, but what are the best boards for CentOS (if any) and how do >> ECS boards stack up? >> >> (Yeah, I know they're cheap, but my budget is EXTREMELY limited for home >> machines. I just got an ECS NFORCE4M-A with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800MHz >> and 2Gb of 800 MHz OCZ memory, plus a geFORCE 7100ds video board cuz the >> ECS doesn't have an AGP slop for my aging current video card. Comments >> welcome.) > > Sounds like you're committed now. The time to ask was before; now your > best guage is experience. If you haven't installed yet, test with a live > distro (is there a CentOS Live? I think there is). Knoppix is good, any > of the ubuntu versions & releases comes as a pair of images/CDs, one is > an installable live system, the other the more tradidional text-mode > install cd. > > >> Thanks - reply directly if you don't think this belongs here. > > It's good to stay here for sanity checking/debating the point and for > those who might find it in the archive. It's annoying to google a > problem, find the question and no answer. > > > > The centos live CD would be the best test, as the other live cd's probably have a much newer kernel and better hardware support. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!